A post about #water & #rivers: From the history of the #Danube to the #Wutach in the #BlackForest – one of the last wild rivers in Germany. With reflections by Alexander von Humboldt, one of the first ecologists, and a #readingtip: the new book by #RobertMacfarlane. Bonus track: a #photo exhibition.

https://www.silberspur.de/blogs/read/113

#River #WildRiver #Nature #Sustainability #Ecology #Time #AlexanderVonHumboldt #LivingRivers #Danube #NatureWriting #ClimateChange #NaturePhotography #Photography

#ReadingTip The journal 'Nature Sustainability' has published a new paper: 'Citizen Involvement in the UN's Global Biodiversity Framework'. Check it out here: https://www.framework-biodiversity.eu/post/citizen-involvement-in-the-un-s-global-biodiversity-framework
#citizenscience

#ReadingTip: Alexandra Irimia|@AlexandraIrim and Jonathan Foster have started a newsletter to collect research on bureaucracy in modern art and culture. Their first issue is a recap of "Bureaucriticism" in 2023:
https://bureaucritics.substack.com/p/best-of-bureaucriticism-2023

#READINGTIP: Two articles from KWI int. fellow were published in the current issue of the journal Ethnography: “Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South” (w/Catherin Larouce & Leilah Vevaina) → https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14661381221134434

And “No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities” → https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14661381221134442

#OpenSearchcommunity, great #ReadingTip – #OpenAccess

❇ The State of Google Critique and Intervention ❇

The special issue of the journal ‚Big Data & Society‘ provides articles and commentaries by renowned researchers such as Astrid Mager, Dirk Lewandowski, Ov Cristian Norocel, Richard Rogers, Renée Ridgway, Rosie Graham, Jutta Haider, Malte Rödl, Bernhard Rieder.

➡️ https://journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/collections/stateofgooglecritiqueandIntervention

“Because if you don’t trust the founders that you work with (…), why would you ever invest in them?”

As the easy money dries up, investors start looking more closely into what kind of startups they are investing in. That’s actually a very healthy development.

#Sundayread #Readingtip #SiliconValley #MakingFutureReality

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/business/silicon-valley-fraud.html?algo=editorial_importance_fy_email_news&block=4&campaign_id=142&emc=edit_fory_20230415&fellback=false&imp_id=693418973&instance_id=90321&nl=for-you&nlid=137884534&pool=pool%2Fa2fc9efa-4a9f-46ae-8506-967a38fc2099&rank=2&regi_id=137884534&req_id=233304198&segment_id=130565&surface=for-you-email-news&user_id=e47b31f0c7041a02e8bcd9d94df0d265&variant=0_edimp_fye_news_dedupe

For those of you who want to take a break from generative #AI and read about the good old #metaverse again (😉), here's a roundup of #AR trends for 2023 by @tomemrich. #readingtip

#smartglasses #AR #makingfuturereality

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Total newbie to #mastodon ! My first post is not a Mastodon, but a herd of elephants I encountered recently on the Masai Mara plains. I’ve worked with the Loita Masai for some decades and as a scientist in the UK, Asia & Africa. I also have interests in #wildlife #environment #science #biology #ecology #plants #herpetology #reptiles #tortoises #rhinos #conservation #readingtip #books #comiccon #scifi #marvel #history & generally trying to make this world a kinder, happier place.